Pretty wild indeed. I noticed his boot coming apart and the fact his upper wasn't zipped to his lower, but someone pointed that out. Looks like he either traumatized his hands/wrist or broke same. Like the others said, I hope hes OK because wrist injuries can be pretty painful and complicated depending on how many bones were broken.
One more thing I noticed about the website participants and their comments relating to the wheelie accident. All of them were respectful and when they did say something contrued as slightly off color they made up for it by wishing the rider well and clearly only meant what they said in good spirits. For some reason this pervasive attitude really stood out since I'm not used to it, honestly. Then it dawned on me, the incident took place in the Midwest, not the East or the West but the Midwest. I've done my share of traveling during the course of my work, both here and abroad. People in the Midwest are just nicer people, period. You have a local incident like that and on sites like BARF or some others (including here) the rider would have been subject to a cannonade of know it all critics. Everyone knows the East coast, in particular the New York area has its share of arrogant know it alls, these "rumors" have been around for years, but is there an element of truth to them? Take the U.S. Open held in New York some years back. What a god damn embarrassment the spectators were, basically a crowd of assholes with big mouths. I was ashamed to be an American, especially when you compare that crowd behavior against the European crowds attending the British Open. Open fans are respectful, they acknowledge good play, no matter where your from. In conclusion, the rumor that many Easterners, mainly New York types are blowhard disrespectful hooligans is true relative to the behavior of other regions, both here and abroad.
I just shake my head and wonder why we are like that and getting worst as time passes by. It didn't help we had a bumbler pirate as a President; yep, I heard about him more than I wished for while overseas. What we lack is basic respect, we lost it somewhere. I think it started around the same time Cage Fighting, WWE Wrestling coupled with Jerry, etc became our new past time. As Americans get fatter and fatter, the figure is mind blowing btw, we get more discourteous and ugly.
